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  1. The Painted Veil is a 2006 American drama film directed by John Curran. The screenplay by Ron Nyswaner is based on the 1925 novel of the same title by W. Somerset Maugham. Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Toby Jones, Anthony Wong Chau Sang and Liev Schreiber appear in the leading roles. This is the third film adaptation of the Maugham book ...

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  2. Jan 19, 2007 · The Painted Veil: Directed by John Curran. With Catherine An, Bin Li, Bin Wu, Alan David. Dr Walter gets married to the beautiful Kitty but soon finds out that she is cheating on him.

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  3. The Painted Veil. (novel) The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is a reference to Percy Bysshe Shelley 's 1824 sonnet, which begins "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life". The novel was first published in serialised form in five issues of Cosmopolitan (November 1924 – March 1925).

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  5. The Painted Veil (1925) is the 11th novel by British novelist and playwright William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965).He obtained the title from the opening lines of an untitled sonnet by British Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, posthumously published in 1824: “Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life” (Shelley, Percy Bysshe.

  6. Visually, The Painted Veil has all the trappings of a stuffy period drama, but Norton's and Watts's deft portrayals of imperfect, complicated characters give the film a modern-day spark.

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  7. Dec 20, 2006 · The Painted Veil. Directed by John Curran. Drama, Romance. PG-13. 2h 5m. By Manohla Dargis. Dec. 20, 2006. It’s no surprise that one of the best scenes in the latest and third film iteration of ...

  8. Kitty Fane (Naomi Watts) is a frivolous young English woman who longs for romance and excitement, trapped in a loveless marriage to a staid Shanghai researcher. When her husband learns she has had an affair, he volunteers to fight a cholera epidemic in China's war-torn interior. Dr. Walter Fane (Edward Norton) forces his wife to accompany him ...

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